Project Gutenberg's Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt, by James Baikie

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

Title: Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt

Author: James Baikie

Illustrator: Constance Baikie

Release Date: September 29, 2007 [EBook #22799]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PEEPS AT MANY LANDS: ANCIENT EGYPT ***

Produced by Geetu Melwani, Bruce Albrecht and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

PEEPS AT
MANY LANDS

ANCIENT EGYPT

[Illustration: PLATE 1.
AN EGYPTIAN GALLEY.]

PEEPS AT MANY LANDS

ANCIENT
EGYPT

BY
REV. JAMES BAIKIE, F.R.A.S.

AUTHOR OF "PEEPS AT THE HEAVENS," "THE STORY OF
THE PHARAOHS," "THE SEA KINGS OF CRETE," ETC.

WITH SIXTEEN FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS,
THOSE IN COLOUR BEING BY
CONSTANCE N. BAIKIE

A. & C. BLACK, LTD.
4, 5 & 6, SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W.
1916

* * * * *

_First published October 1912_
_Reprinted January and April 1916_

AGENTS

AMERICA THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
64 & 66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK

AUSTRALASIA OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
205 FLINDERS LANE, MELBOURNE

CANADA THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA, LTD.
ST. MARTIN'S HOUSE, 70 BOND STREET, TORONTO

INDIA MACMILLAN & COMPANY, LTD.
Macmillan Building, BOMBAY
309 BOW BAZAAR STREET, CALCUTTA

_Printed in Great Britain._

* * * * *

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. A LAND OF OLD RENOWN 1
II. A DAY IN THEBES 6
III. A DAY IN THEBES (_continued_) 11
IV. PHARAOH AT HOME 17
V. THE LIFE OF A SOLDIER 24
VI. CHILD-LIFE IN ANCIENT EGYPT 33
VII. SOME FAIRY-TALES OF LONG AGO 41
VIII. SOME FAIRY-TALES OF LONG AGO
(_continued_) 47
IX. EXPLORING THE SOUDAN 54